Divorce was divided into 900 million yuan, 182 million shares and a market value of 900 million yuan! This is the sky high "breakup fee" paid by Zhou Heping, chairman of wal nuclear materials, to his ex-wife Qiu Limin, which also led to the loss of the actual controller of the listed company. It's nothing new for bosses or executives of listed companies to get divorced at a 'sky high price'. Red Star News reporter found that in recent years, more than 10 bosses or executives of listed companies have divorced their wives, and the breakup fees range from hundreds of millions of yuan to billions of yuan.
The divorce cost 900 million and lost his controlling stake
Wal nuclear materials recently announced that Zhou Heping, the company's largest shareholder, made relevant arrangements on the division of divorce property, and transferred 157 million shares held by him and 24.94 million shares held by Shenzhen wal Dali technology enterprise (limited partnership) to his ex-wife Qiu Limin, with a total of 182 million shares. According to the current share price of wal nuclear materials, the breakup fee is as high as 900 million yuan.
After the divorce, the two people had close voting rights and were not acting in concert, resulting in the loss of out of control equity
After the divorce property division agreement came into effect, the shareholding structure of the company also changed dramatically: Zhou Heping's actual disposable voting rights decreased to 15.06%, and he is still the largest shareholder of the listed company; Qiu Limin's actual disposable voting rights will increase to 14.47%, becoming the second largest shareholder of the company. As the voting rights of the two persons are close, there is no arrangement for concerted action or voting right entrustment, and the shareholding ratio of other shareholders is less than 5%, the company is in the state of no controlling shareholder and actual controller.
It is worth noting that Zhou Heping's divorce from his ex-wife occurred 10 years ago. According to the announcement of the listed company, Zhou Heping and Qiu Limin registered for divorce as early as August 3, 2009, but they did not actually split and transfer the shares at that time. Why wait until now to divide the property? The reason is unknown.
However, if the property could be divided a few years ago, Qiu Limin would get far more than 900 million yuan. Looking at the stock prices over the years, it is found that if the property is divided at the peak of the stock price in 2015, Qiu Limin will get 2.9 billion yuan.
A shares frequently appear 'sky high divorce'
Listed companies' sky high divorce 'is common in recent years, and the breakup fee is also getting higher and higher. For example, in May 2015, Feng Mintang, a shareholder of Haomai technology, divorced his ex-wife Liu Xia. Based on the stock price at the time of delivery, Liu Xia's stock market value reached 1.4 billion yuan; In January 2017, Ruan Hongxian, founder and chairman of Yixin hall, divorced, and his ex-wife's share of the stock market value was about 2 billion yuan; Earlier, there was the divorce of Yuan Jinhua, senior vice president of Sany Heavy Industry. The market value of the shares obtained by his ex-wife once reached 2.2 billion yuan.
Zhou Yahui, the actual controller of Kunlun wanwei, once created the most expensive divorce case for the boss of A-share listed company. Based on the share price at the time of announcement in September 2016, the value of split equity alone exceeded 7 billion yuan! However, after the share split, Zhou Yahui's position as the actual controller has not been shaken; His ex-wife Li Qiong also said that he would continue to fulfill his share locking commitment.
Hong Kong stocks, U.S. stocks sky high price divorce case is even more amazing
Of course, in the divorce case of the sky high price of a shares, it's nothing to get Hong Kong stocks or US stocks. In terms of amount, the most expensive divorce case of Hong Kong stocks is much higher than a shares. For example, Wu Yajun, chairman of Longhu real estate, and his husband Cai Kui were given 28% equity and about 1.572 billion shares. According to the stock price of Longhu at that time, Cai Kui's shares were worth about HK $21.4 billion.
However, their divorce did not have much impact on Longhu. Longhu once issued a statement saying: 'Ms. Wu Yajun and Mr. Cai Kui dissolved their marriage in a peaceful and friendly way. Nevertheless, as major shareholders, the two have reached a consensus on continuing to safeguard the rights and interests of the company in the future. "
As for the sky high price of US stocks, divorce is even more amazing. Remember a few months ago, Jeff & middot, the world's richest man and founder of Amazon; Bezos's divorce? The 'most expensive' divorce case in history once attracted the attention of melon eating people all over the world. After the property division, his ex-wife got Amazon shares with a total value of $37 billion! It can also rank 23rd on the global rich list. At the same time, his ex-wife completely left Bezos the right to vote for his shares, allowing Bezos to keep control of Amazon.
(original title: how expensive is it for bosses of listed companies to break up after a divorce of 900 million yuan